“Cloud Aura” [ft. Brooke Candy]

Back in June, Charli XCX released a pretty solid (if very short) mixtape, Heartbreaks and Earthquakes, that featured new Charli material rubbing elbows with interpolations of other people's material and samples of Cruel Intentions dialogue. Apparently, she's prepping a follow-up mixtape, Super Ultra Mixtape, that's going to drop November 7; "Cloud Aura" is the first song to be let go from the tape, and, well, this is a weird one, folks.

Not so much for Charli's typically electro-goth-y stylings, but for the appearance of "rapper"/meta-meme/Brody Jenner enthusiastBrooke Candy, aka the tall, metal-dressed oddball who appeared in Grimes' ultra-weird video for "Genesis". (In the Director's Cut interview for the video with our own Carrie Battan, Grimes' Claire Boucher referred to Candy as "a very contemporary muse", a quote I'm choosing to present without comment.) Candy's appearance here certainly is...something, as she scores points with the puerile set ("Handed you my heart/ And then you took a shit on it") shortly after alienating every rational-thinking person on earth ("You were my Chris Brown/ I was your only girl").

Head here to watch the video for Brooke Candy's "Das Me", if you have a masochistic streak and are unconcerned about how you spend your time.